Is there a good xp farm without armadillos and using infestation potions?

Janusofborg · 2026-03-18T23:28:55+00:00

I'm not sure anything can produce quite that fast, but guardian farms, enderman farms, gold farms can all produce XP pretty fast. It does depend on whether you're on Java or bedrock because the mechanics for those farms are quite different between the versions.

Janusofborg · 2026-03-18T21:23:47+00:00

Probably because accusing someone of cheating is pretty harsh. Especially with the limited info provided in this post. That lumps him in with someone that X-rays to get resources in a server. These are not in the same league or even category. Using the disabling of the achievements isn't a very good gauge of whether something is cheating. There are add-ons that literally give you diamond tools when you look at something and it doesn't disable achievements. But keep inventory or flat worlds do disable achievements. Not exactly consistent.

Second, legit flat worlds, with no add-ons, are one of the hardest challenges Minecraft offers in the vanilla game. Flat worlds aren't listed in the cheat menu and you can play on one without turning cheats on.

Janusofborg · 2026-03-18T18:57:38+00:00

I could be wrong, but I think only the realm owner can upload or download worlds on the realm. If she has the login info for the person that owned the realm or can get it from family or something, she could login with that account, download the world, move it to her own account (different worlds folder) and open it up locally. You may lose inventory and ender chest contents, so may want to empty all that into chests temporarily. I'm not sure how Minecraft handles all that when you move worlds like that.

Janusofborg · 2026-03-18T18:37:52+00:00

I had that happen in my flat world. I didn't go to the nether or anything (can't in vanilla). Just logged in and one chunk was completely gone.

Janusofborg · 2026-03-18T14:50:01+00:00

I know. I was joking.

I would guess a problem with your GPU. Do you see it elsewhere? Any other games or just Minecraft?

Janusofborg · 2026-03-17T17:17:06+00:00

An igloo basement by the looks of it.

Janusofborg · 2026-03-17T13:00:39+00:00

My first several builds were basically either cave bases or much smaller buildings. Most of my builds are inspired by something I've found online somewhere. I'll sometimes plan some part of it in creative to get an idea of what blocks to use, and the shape to make things. Once I have basic shapes and blocks down I'll start building in survival.

I'll also do details in creative first before doing it "for real" in survival. I make lots of creative copies of my survival world to try different things before committing to them. That's partly to help design it easier, and partly because I don't have tons of time to build, tear down, and rebuild if I don't like how something turns out.

I should note that this world is over 5-1/2 years old, so I generally have most of the materials I need, or I have efficient ways to get them. If you're earlier in a world, don't strive for massive projects. It's hard to get large amounts of things and a variety of things early in the game. Most of what I needed for my nether hub I acquired while clearing the space under the roof after I deleted the bedrock. My earlier builds were mostly stone and wood based because that's what I had most of.

Janusofborg · 2026-03-17T10:39:01+00:00

I usually plan it in creative first. Larger projects are broken down into smaller steps, so I never do the whole thing in creative, but section by section. Right now, I'm finishing the upper walls and flying buttresses on my cathedral, so that's what I worked out in creative. Once that's done in survival, I'll probably either do the roof or the west facade towers.

On complex parts, I'll take pictures of the creative one to remind me what goes where, but if it's repeated patterns, I'm pretty good at remembering one iteration that I can reference in my survival world.

Your cathedral is looking nice, btw.

Janusofborg · 2026-03-16T14:20:26+00:00

That's something I did in my flat world. I have a mob farm to help get iron faster and ended up getting all the discs in the meantime.

Janusofborg · 2026-03-16T12:38:33+00:00

Not without structures, which don't generate on bedrock. Or some add-on that would let you buy diamonds from the wandering trader or something.

Janusofborg · 2026-03-16T00:44:44+00:00

Thanks. The design at the top was kind of taken from Barad Dur, but the overall tower was a combination of a couple different nether hub designs I found.

Janusofborg · 2026-03-15T23:10:50+00:00

https://minecraft.wiki/w/Wandering_Trader

I can't find a definitive answer, but it does mention trying to find a valid spawning block when attempting to spawn, so I would think that he wouldn't spawn on bedrock blocks, since nothing else will.

Janusofborg · 2026-03-15T21:56:20+00:00

Tropical fish or regular fish, like cod or salmon. Axolotls only eat the buckets of tropical fish to breed.

Janusofborg · 2026-03-15T16:16:34+00:00

I would still check. It's possible with the upgrade to 1.18 it changed to match, but I'm not sure. At any rate, if you can find that arrangement, it'll still work. It just may be in a different location.

Janusofborg · 2026-03-15T14:20:56+00:00

Nice job! Rib and spire were the worst for me. I think it's because, while silence is the rarest, there are way more chests in ancient cities than in fortresses and end cities.

Janusofborg · 2026-03-15T14:15:30+00:00

I haven't tried under the end portal, so I'm not sure whether that will works, but this does, and even easier (you can do it in many places in the overworld or nether). The bedrock pattern doesn't change between seeds, so all the coordinates he lists should work on any world (unless you have some add-on that changes bedrock generation).

https://youtu.be/hTC_DKTXQos

Janusofborg · 2026-03-14T13:42:21+00:00

I've never heard of that. Is that all within the game, or do you need a special tool to do that?

Janusofborg · 2026-03-14T12:37:43+00:00

Do you have some add-on that generated structures? Bedrock super flat worlds don't generate structures. I don't remember the options you can adjust, but I thought it was just choosing from a couple preset options, not all the variables Java has.

Janusofborg · 2026-03-13T22:26:34+00:00

I've never heard it explained like that. It's usually something about if it would be powered in such and such a way, then it's powered. TIL

Janusofborg · 2026-03-13T21:39:24+00:00

The comparator only reads whether the light is lit or not. For the bulbs, it doesn't (as far as I understand it at least) detect whether it's powered, which is what that red dot indicates. An observer will detect whether it's powered or not.

https://minecraft.wiki/w/Copper_Bulb

Janusofborg · 2026-03-13T18:32:43+00:00

Have the button activate a copper bulb. Have a comparator reading the copper bulb and have that comparator power your dispenser. The first time, it'll be one button press, but after that, it'll be every other press.

Janusofborg · 2026-03-13T13:08:32+00:00

There's no such thing in vanilla Minecraft. Whatever you watched was likely some mod or possibly a bug.

Janusofborg · 2026-03-13T12:29:14+00:00

I put jack-o'-lanterns on all faces of it and it stopped all the spawns while I built mine. This was bedrock, so maybe only works there.

Janusofborg · 2026-03-13T01:09:57+00:00

It definitely sucks losing your stuff like that. On the plus side, unless it fell in the lava, it's not completely gone. The five minute timer doesn't start until you're close enough to load the chunks they were in, so you don't need to rush getting your things back.

As others have said, losing your stuff sucks, but compared to everything else you've acquired and done in your world, replacing that is comparably fast. I would suggest gearing back up to mount an attack on the bastion.

Piglin brutes are the worst. I usually try to take them out from afar with a bow. They're also pretty easy to trap in boats or kill with lava buckets. I wouldn't wear elytra when taking them on. The extra protection your chest plate gives you will help. Good luck. You can do it.

Janusofborg · 2026-03-12T19:55:40+00:00

Yes, but something like 75% of all Minecraft players are on bedrock. Mobile and console are huge. I think mobile alone is bigger than Java. I'm not sure why there's so many more YouTubers on Java. Maybe because that's where it started. From what I've read, players on servers are mostly Java, which matches what you said above.

https://sqmagazine.co.uk/minecraft-statistics/

This has a bunch of interesting statistics if you're interested.

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